Hermano video installation on view at Lawndale Art Center's Big Show July 1-30

Theo Huxtable the world's hermano is immortalized LaChicana Style....Come and check it out along with a bunch of groovy works by Texas artists in this eclectic show tradition.

La Chicana takes the stage for a really BIG SHOW!

KITTY LOCO Goes All 80's for EAST END LIVE ART EVENT POLITIQUEER 12/11/11

Kitty Loco was at it again strutting her kitty stuff and kicking it one time for the 'cause. In the music video short "Good Queer, Bad Queer" Kitty finds herself wrapped in delicious controversy as she attempts to resist the temptations of a certain homophobic fast food chicken chain. Voices Breaking Boundaries presented Thirteen artists were chosen by POLITIQUEER curators Sima Shakhsari and Jennifer Tyburczy after an open call made in early September for performance art pieces, dramatic readings, spoken word and other forms of embodied art examining the official and everyday dimensions of “queer politics.”

A NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER: LA CHICANA SPINS AND SCREENS

What an evening for groovie movies.AvantGardenwas the spot and Burlap Monkey man Mike James was host to this relaxed and chill screening. Part of an ongoing Monthly series it was mighty fine to be a spotlight guest. Keep up the good work Mike! Also may I suggest trying the Absinthe. It is so choice.

Those Mildred People sure know how to throw a swell shindig! La Chicana's DJ ESTeFF was in the house spinning that mellow blend of Pop, Dance, Retro and Carnified Classicks! A crazy fun night with carnival games, yummy treats, and freaky outfits a plenty. Check out Mildred's Umbrellas Website for the incriminating photo evidence gathered graciously by Houston's own man about town Ted Vines.

Beware my lovelies, There's Something a brewing in the Gypsy Swamp!

_OCT. 28, GYPSY SWAMP SHOWCASEHighly trained but never tamed, this showcase brought together some of the Bayou City's best improvisers, visual artists, and dancers for a deeply freaky and sensual celebration of the Dead and Dark. Led by Hilary Sloan - one of Houston's best and most diverse musicians - ... her dark wild gypsy violin virtuosity with powerful vocal improvisation set the perfect mood for an amazing evening of entertainment. Yet and her menagerie of fierce creatures roamed the orange show looking for unsuspecting audeince members while Rev. Emily Sloan performed baptisms rituals. La Chicana's DJ ESteFF joined in the fun by debuted an all-new Halloween video/music mix made special for the evening...check it out here*Music by* *Multi-media Installation & Performances by*Hilary Sloan Y.E. Torres Brittany WallisJo Bird Erin Joyce Jacquelyne BoeJeremy Nuncio Emily Sloan Mills-McCoinThomas Helton Mandy TrichellStephanie aka DJ ESteFF Brittany Wallis

Faster than Eagles, Stronger than Lions, and Wicky Wilder than Medusa between Meds it's THUNDERPUSS!

LCLP's Art Car Creation Thunderpuss Reeked Havoc and General Naughtiness at this years Houston's Art Car Parade. Piloted by the Fearless Garrett Katzenjammer along with Kitty Krew Stephf, Jlow, Macy, Henry, Jonathan and Starring the One and Only Talented Mr Kitty (Richard Solis). When asked what makes a thunderpuss Mr. Kitty simply lifted his awesome tail of might and emitted a spray of thundering fury. Coming Soon Extended video documentation of this incredible Puss in Full Color Action!Till then here's a little taste.

So I guess You Think You're All Bad Now or Something...(Latino Congratulations)La Chicana Chosen Especial For Curation Residency at Gallery 1724

For The Man: The 9 to 5 Show Features Daredevil Double Dipper Artist who ain't skeered!

Gallery 1724 is the spot for the exciting show spotlighting artwork created while at work.* Visual, photo, sculpture. Video. Art daredevils in the form of clockwatchers, peons, surfs, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, johnny paychecks who have the audacity to keep creating even after they have clocked in!

La Chicana Keeps Cool for Box13: Kenmore Anniversary Show

There's a Party in My Pantry and Your All invited!...Well Sort of Last Chance viewing the debut of the new mini-series at The Kenmore at Box 13 Artspace this Saturday. Sanchez’s “How Deep is Your Love?, An Evening with the Freshleez” is the season premiere of the new series taking a look at what goes on in the refrigerator between supper and the midnight snack.On View Saturdays 1pm-5pm or by appointment Box13 6700 Harrisburg Houston, TX 77011http://the-kenmore.blogspot.com

La Chicana Pussy Foots around in You Were Beautiful When I Lost You Last chance to catch the show! Held over till Jan. 28th. Do ya self a favor...check it out

Leave it to the super cool and talented Jonatan Lopez to curate and put together such a WILD show!

You were Beautiful When I lost You is in Memoriam of the vanished and the lost. HCC Northline Gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to our cohabiting species. 20 of Houston's most innovative artists present visual and performance works that yield us to ponder on the way we value life, the briefness of beauty and the imminence of mortality.

12.09.10 7-9pm HCC Northline Gallery, 8001 Fulton C'mon out and check out our latest installation The Talented Mr Kitty and perhaps a live appearence by Mr Kitty himself if I can lure him with Treats!

Emily Sloan's Funeral Party For the Living Come's Alive with La Chicana Chop Chop Chop

"Funeral Party for the Living" will took place on New Year's Day at 5pm at 14 Pews. The event was totally awesome folks clad in boss funeral attire visited got their drank on, eulogy writing assistance, and the funeral service was open to the public to speak, sing, etc., Nick Cooper led a funeral sound procession with the audience along with whatever instruments they'd like to bring, a funeral pyre for burning symbolic items contributed by the public, and a funeral food pot luck and recipe s...wap, had many a delicious dish!

*Stephanie Saint Sanchez got crazy in her performance piece "Chop, Chop, Chop" during the service and the Especial Viddy "Death is a Funny Thing!"I'll be posting vids and picks soon.

Keep it Coming Love! Keep it Coming Love! Las Ultimas: II Gets goin

Join Frida, La Virgen de Vigilante, Sista Rolla as they reunite "one last time" to save a young girl from the Ultima Pecado.

"You best to watch it, you 'ol fisheye foo!"

AMAZING LIVING THEATRE KILLS 'EM in IS HTOWN!

“AMAZING LIVING THEATRE”BRINGS DEAD ART FORM TO LIFE

October 1, 2010 (HOUSTON). . . In the aftermath of a horrendous tsunami of crude oil, society is shattered and the art and history of theater are lost to the ages. Those who wish to practice the now-illegal art form (it is believed to cause fires) are forced underground, where they live in constant fear of discovery.

...To secure their traveling expenses, the descendants of theater performers operate illegal freak shows that reveal secrets of the now forbidden craft in the back alleys and crumbling theatrical venues of a post-apocalyptic Houston of 2020.

Audience members move through the traveling spectacle and are even invited to take part in the action. Casual dress is advised as audience members must walk through the exhibits and may even be forced to duck for cover in times of danger.

amazing living theatre offical website www.amazinglivingtheatre.com

Come up to the Lab and see what's on the slab: Stephf meets the Labotanica School of Latitudes Artists as Activators Residency Program

School of Latitudes is an artist residency that takes place August to September 2010, conceived, curated and presented by labotanica. School of Latitudes explores new approaches to creating and presenting art that are artist-driven, DIY, and that locate creativity in all sorts of environments and places. The residency is not about completing these projects, but simply exploring, launching and testing out these ideas, all the while using labotanica as a hub to do this. The residency will culminate in an exhibition and publication documenting the start of these new projects. The theme of the first session of School of Latitudes is “artists as activators”. The residency locates artists as active agents of change and explores integrative approaches to making art in our community.Labotanica is a resource and a laboratory. labotanica uses flexible, open-ended formats to frame new art forms and dialogues that are often independent, experimental and developing. labotanica key words: reciprocity, exploration, freedom, latitudes, magical thinking, open-ended, flexibility, de-center, soulfulness, processes. http://labotanica.org Project Proposal: BLOOD BITCH is an experimental multi-media theater adventure based on a re-imagining of the Story of The Bloody Countess Elizabet Bathroy(1560-1614) who was rumored to bathe in the blood of her virgin servants in the belief that it would keep her young forever. It is a musical comedy. Audibly it sounds like Disney/Blondie/and Charo. Visually it is Early Tim Burton/ 70′s Brian Depalma (Phantom of the Paradise/Carrie).

Under the Influence: Ideas, Iconograpy and the itch to scratch

ROOTS Of REBELLION SHOW At DEANS

What kind of ruckus is upon us? Read on Friend and find out!Houston, TX (July 10, 2010) – Five Houston visual artists salute Independence Day and ‘The Spirit of ’76’ in the Roots of Rebellion photography exhibition opening 8 p.m. Saturday, July 10, 2010 at Dean’s Credit Clothing in Montrose (315 Fairview St.)

Liana Lopez, Bryan Parras, Hadeel Assali, Burnell McCray and Stephanie Saint Sanchez present visual testimony of the seeds of rebellion and protest from coastal Louisiana, Houston, Mexico City and Palestine. The works reveal brief glimpses from front lines of communities in tension including Gulf Coast fisher communities affected by the still uncontainable oil-spill, scenes that transport observers to a checkpoint in Palestine and a nude almost celebratory-seeming protest of a stolen presidential election in Mexico City.

Liana Lopez is the producer and co-host of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say broadcast weekly on 90.1 FM / www.KPFT.org (Pacifica-Houston Radio.) She is also the recipient of a Houston Arts Alliance Emerging Artist. She curated and exhibited her work, and the work of nine others, in Houston Vanguard: Documenting Contemporary Social Justice Movements as part of biannual Fotofest 2010.

ARTY PANTS ALERT!

La Chicana Laundry Pictures Presents Las Ultimas en SEXO GRANDE

Can Mortal Sin be Too Far Away? Somewhere in TVLANDIA, Frida and Diego, La Virgen Vigilante, y Sista Rolla, are all that stand between a youths first pangs of La Pecado Una from an Erik Estrada Pin-up.

Exhibition Dates: April 9 – May 15, 2010 labotanica is open to the public saturday, 1-5pmlabotanica presents La Lengua Muerta (The Dead Tongue) an exhibition of new works driven by private conversations about deciphering how Latin we still are. A group of uprooted and acclimating emerging artists are both subversively and romantically embracing classification as a point of departure to investigate their historical and current geography. A panel of established artists, curators and critics: Elia Arce, Margarita Cabrera, Aisen Chacin, Delilah Montoya, Ruben Cordova and Surpik Angelini, will participate in dialogue at labotanica, offering the artists their Latin Label experience. At the core of these dialogues lays the need to move beyond traditional categories of “Latin American Art” and to frame new definitions, visual languages and creative practices among these artists in Houston. La Lengua Muerta will yield visual and performance works to be as diverse (in form, subject, aesthetics, and influences) as being Latin American. Participating artists include: Daniel Adame, Chuy Benitez, Aisen Caro Chacin, Claudia Cruz, Sebastian Forray, Jonathan Lopez, Angel Quesada, Cheyanne Ramos, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, and Alex Soares. La Lengua Muerta is a Gulf Coast Art Corridor project curated by Aisen Caro Chacin La Lengua Muerta is a Gulf Coast Art Corridor project conceived and commissioned by Elia Arce, and supported by an Arts and Activism Exchange grant. Arce is currently an Artist-In-Residence at DiverseWorks supported by a New Voices Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Initiative.